Lech Gwit

A young priest comes to a town to help the old provost in pastoral ministry. It early May, the parish prepares for the First Communion. Unexpectedly, the provost is admitted to hospital with a heart attack. Priest Piotr is on his own now in a completely new place. At a catechesis, one of the girls catches his attention. She’s sad, introvert and sometimes even aggressive. Marta is a daughter of the richest man in the town. During her confession, the priest feels she’s hiding something. When the time of Sacrament reception comes, Marta runs away from the altar. After hours of searching, priest Piotr finds her hidden in a vestry. The girl tells him the horrible truth.

One of the passengers on a ship carrying Poles on a cruise in December 1981 is a dissident high school teacher sent abroad by Solidarity. He is under surveillance of the secret police, anxious to get their hands on the info that he is carrying. When the ship is in the middle of the Baltic sea, martial law is declared and the ship is militarized. The captain announces he will turn and return the home port. Many anguished passengers put the life vests on and jump into the sea, where they are picked up by two German ships. The teacher, however, decides to return to Poland and continue the struggle for freedom.

En Pologne. Un fonctionnaire de la censure cinématographique, ancien critique, autrefois poète, mène une existence morose et convenue entre sa secrétaire et un assistant flagorneur. Il ne comprend pas pourquoi sa fille méprise son travail, qu'il croit utile et noble. Un beau jour, les personnages d'un mélodrame, excédés par la stupidité de leurs rôles, se révoltent sur l'écran d'un cinéma. Ayant enfin retrouvé un sens à donner à sa vie, grâce à un cinéma qu'il a passé son temps à détruire, le censeur est chargé de ramener les personnages à la raison... Grand prix du festival d'Avoriaz 1992.

Ignacy Jan Paderewski returns to Poland. A journalist who is supposed to describe his arrival is called to the editorial office.

Two workers, bored with their current situation, decide to rob a famous movie director.

A young, beautiful, ambitious, but professionally inexperienced priest Jakub comes to a small village. Even the initial contacts indicate that he finds himself in an environment that he not only does not know, but also does not understand.

L'officier de police Abel Rothstein est envoyé en mission en Pologne pour enquêter sur l'enlèvement de plusieurs jeunes femmes retrouvées assassinées quelques jours plus tard. Il fait équipe avec Marek Brezeczyszcykiewicz, un flic local, et découvre que la mafia russe est impliquée dans cette mystérieuse affaire. Cependant, Jane, l'ex-femme du consul des Etats-Unis, vient d'être kidnappée et tout porte à croire qu'elle risque de subir le même sort que les victimes précédentes, à savoir périr sous les caméras pour alimenter un important trafic de snuff-movies.

A group of social welfare workers led by their new director tries to provide necessary aid to people struggling with various problems.